Comedy Movies
The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)

The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)

The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
IMDb: N/A
56

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won’t leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up…

Genre: Comedy
Saved by the Belle (1939)

Saved by the Belle (1939)

Saved by the Belle (1939)
IMDb: N/A
17

The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a…

Genre: Comedy
Sea Scouts (1939)

Sea Scouts (1939)

Sea Scouts (1939)
IMDb: N/A
8

Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Bachelor Mother (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)
IMDb: N/A
82

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Beach Picnic (1939)

Beach Picnic (1939)

Beach Picnic (1939)
IMDb: N/A
8

Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Girl from Mexico (1939)

The Girl from Mexico (1939)

The Girl from Mexico (1939)
IMDb: N/A
71

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…

The Gorilla (1939)

The Gorilla (1939)

The Gorilla (1939)
IMDb: N/A
68

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards….

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Some Like It Hot (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)
IMDb: N/A
65

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Lucky Night (1939)

Lucky Night (1939)

Lucky Night (1939)
IMDb: N/A
82

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Mikado (1939)

The Mikado (1939)

The Mikado (1939)
IMDb: N/A
91

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month’s time, Ko-Ko…

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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Zenobia (1939)

Zenobia (1939)

Zenobia (1939)
IMDb: N/A
73

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Genre: Comedy
Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)

Midnight (1939)
IMDb: N/A
94

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Let’s Be Famous (1939)

Let’s Be Famous (1939)

Let’s Be Famous (1939)
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83

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

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Genre: Comedy, Music
Never Say Die (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)

Never Say Die (1939)
IMDb: N/A
82

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her…

Genre: Comedy
The Paymaster (1939)

The Paymaster (1939)

The Paymaster (1939)
IMDb: N/A
103

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Pygmalion (1939)

Pygmalion (1939)

Pygmalion (1939)
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96

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months’ training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trouble Brewing (1939)

Trouble Brewing (1939)

Trouble Brewing (1939)
IMDb: N/A
87

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939)
IMDb: N/A
92

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Society Dog Show (1939)

Society Dog Show (1939)

Society Dog Show (1939)
IMDb: N/A
8

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
St. Louis Blues (1939)

St. Louis Blues (1939)

St. Louis Blues (1939)
IMDb: N/A
92

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Honolulu (1939)

Honolulu (1939)

Honolulu (1939)
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84

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)

Idiot’s Delight (1939)
IMDb: N/A
107

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Blackwell’s Island (1939)

Blackwell’s Island (1939)

Blackwell’s Island (1939)
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71

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Great Man Votes (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)
IMDb: N/A
72

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
IMDb: N/A
67

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

Sweethearts (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)
IMDb: N/A
114

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy, Music
There’s That Woman Again (1938)

There’s That Woman Again (1938)

There’s That Woman Again (1938)
IMDb: N/A
72

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill’s prying wife wants to…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Thanks for Everything (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)
IMDb: N/A
70

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a…

Genre: Comedy
The Girl Downstairs (1938)

The Girl Downstairs (1938)

The Girl Downstairs (1938)
IMDb: N/A
77

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn’t count on the maid falling in love with…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Next Time I Marry (1938)

Next Time I Marry (1938)

Next Time I Marry (1938)
IMDb: N/A
65

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a “plain American.” Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)

Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
IMDb: N/A
8

Daffy causes trouble on a Hollywood set.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
IMDb: N/A
8

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely…

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
IMDb: N/A
91

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family’s…

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)
IMDb: N/A
75

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publisher who is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Donald’s Golf Game (1938)

Donald’s Golf Game (1938)

Donald’s Golf Game (1938)
IMDb: N/A
8

Donald Duck tries to exhibit his golfing ability to his nephews only to have them tease him with sneezes, noises and “trick” clubs. Finally, they put a grasshopper in a…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
It’s in the Air (1938)

It’s in the Air (1938)

It’s in the Air (1938)
IMDb: N/A
87

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he…

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Genre: Comedy
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
IMDb: N/A
80

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Listen Darling (1938)

Listen Darling (1938)

Listen Darling (1938)
IMDb: N/A
75

To stop Pinkie’s widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn’t love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family…

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
IMDb: N/A
96

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss…

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That Certain Age (1938)

That Certain Age (1938)

That Certain Age (1938)
IMDb: N/A
95

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton…

Genre: Comedy, Music